Investing Profile

Clara Shih

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Advisor & Angel Investor at Gusto
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NewCo Network
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Stanford University Network
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Current Investing Position
Gusto Advisor
Investments On Record
4

Clara Shih's Investments On Record (4)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Qodo
Series BMar 2026$70M
$120M
Co-investors: Jenna Zerker (Insight Partners), Brian Sack (TLV Partners), Dan Povitsky (Vine Ventures LP), Yonatan Sela (Square Peg Capital)
Scrunch
SeedMar 2025$4M
$19M
Co-investors: Patrick Salyer (Mayfield), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Bryant Chou (Webflow), TJ Parker
Parenthoods
SeedNov 2014$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Oliver Jung, David Breger
Gusto
SeedDec 2012$6M
$700M
Co-investors: Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Dan Rose (Coatue), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software), Seth Sternberg (Auto Insurance Specialists), Ryan Holmes (LOI Venture), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Adam Nash (Gusto), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Christian Jensen (Dragoneer Investment Group), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Laela Sturdy (CapitalG), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Jason Green (Emergence Capital Partners), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Matt Rogers (Incite Ventures), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Jay Simons (Bond), Marco Zappacosta (Thumbtack), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Matt Mickiewicz (Unstoppable Domains), Aston Motes (UnitedMasters), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Hiten Shah (FYI), Ken Chenault Jr. (Benchstrength), Jeff Abbott (Blitzscaling Ventures), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp.com), Matt Humphrey (Quiet Capital), Julia Popowitz (Broadway Angels), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Doug Sleeter (Bill.com), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Dharmesh Shah, Josh Silverman, Charlie Cheever, Erick Tseng, Justin Rosenstein, Jared Leto, Drew Houston, Larry Augustin, Kris Duggan, Sam Altman, Jeff Seibert, Phil Libin, Tobias Lutke, Tien Tzuo, Aaron Levie

Clara Shih's Experience

Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
App Developer University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Advisor & Investor PerplexityPresent
Founder & Executive Chair Hearsay SystemsPresent
SVP, Head of Business AI metaPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) The Grameen Creative LabPresent
App Developer The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Software Engineer BuildfolioPresent
Software Engineer Co-op/Intern MicrosoftPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Self-EmployedPresent
GM, AppExchange Developer Platform & Ecosystem SalesforcePresent
App Developer Self-EmployedPresent
Member, Board of Directors Ad CouncilPresent
Bestselling Author The Social Business ImperativePresent
Founder & CEO Hearsay SystemsPresent
Rework America Task Force John & Mary Markle FoundationPresent
Advisor & Angel Investor GustoPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) NewCoPresent
App Developer NewCoPresent
CEO, Service Cloud SalesforcePresent
CEO, Salesforce AI SalesforcePresent
Software Engineering Intern OraclePresent
Business Operations Analyst GooglePresent
GM, AppExchange Platform & Ecosystem SalesforcePresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Top-PatentsPresent
App Developer Top-PatentsPresent
Web Developer FermilabPresent
Software Engineering Intern Oracle CorporationPresent
Summer Analyst Goldman SachsPresent
Software Engineer Co-op/Intern Microsoft CorporationPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Camp AmeliaPresent
App Developer FaceconnectorPresent
Bestselling Author The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, andPresent
Founder & CEO Hearsay SocialPresent
Member, Board of Directors StarbucksPresent
Diversity Advisory Council Code.orgPresent
Founder & Executive Chair Hearsay SocialPresent
VP, Head of Business AI metaPresent

Clara Shih's Education

University of Oxford Master of Science (M.Sc.) Department of Education and Oxford Internet Institute
Stanford University M.S. Computer Science Distributed Systems and Human-Computer Interaction
Stanford University B.S. Computer Science